Wow, I’m really disappointed. I got a 770 Writing (11 essay), 720 Math, and a 640 CR. But in every single one of my practice tests, I’ve been scoring at least 730-740 in CR, if not 760+. I feel like this is kind of a fluke, so I’m going to retake in June for sure.
Similar thing happened here. I got 760 on math and 760 on writing which I could have expected but 630 on CR, which I usually score 750+. My tutor reached out to me and apparently others’ experienced a lowering of their CR scores as well… Anyways, I’ll be re-taking in either June or September.
Nov:
720 CR
660 M
770 W (10 essay)
March:
770 CR
780 M
710 W (9 essay. That art prompt…)
Not really sure what happened to writing, but I’m pretty happy because I expected way worse with the 3 hours of sleep I got the night before
640 CR 760M 610W (8 Essay)=2010
I was surprised by my CR score because I usually scores high 600s in practice tests. Can’t fathom what questions I got wrong.
Reading: 740
Math:760
Writing: 740 (10 essay)
Total: 2240
Any suggestions for increasing scores for all of them? I’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of one or two questions…
@ivylover1324 you don’t need to increase those scores.
@matchachacha - just wondering, did you only get 3 hours of sleep because you were doing SAT prep?
@CHD2013 nah, I just pretty nervous and had a super hard time falling asleep and ended up tossing and turning for hours
To anyone who had the cr experimental: Is your score for cr than usual b/c mine is and I feel like its a fluke
@vmiller7723 i got a 700 on CR on the January SAT. Honestly, it comes to down just as much luck as preparation. I would say that you should really study up on vocab if that’s where you’re missing questions. If you’re struggling on the reading passages, what really helped me is the following:
ALWAYS stay within the text (don’t inference or put too much thought into the answer choice, if you find yourself rationalizing an answer choice, it’s wrong), Find reasons to cancel out possible answers instead of rationalizing two or more different answers, and just keep reading! Pick a really tough book (early 20th century literature) and read it. Good luck!
@yaytest33 , it is what those passgae based questions that screw me up! I do understand to always support details from the text. Can you emphasize more on what you mean by rationalizing answers? I still dont quite understand
@yaytest33 thank you for your advice. I often do find myself looking beyond the test and overthinking some questions so your advice is spot on
I got a 740 on CR, anyone have any idea what the curve was like?
@samdaman1013 Curve was probably something like this: -0 800, -1 800, -2 800, -3 770, -4 750, -5 740, -6 720, -7 710 This is based on how many you actually missed. A normal CR curve but with harder questions.
For people who got a CR 700+ is there a common patter you find in the correct answers? I’ve read some blogs that College Board doesn’t want controversial so the right answer is always politically correct. Do you look for that in your answer choices?
@Conan77
I got a 750CR on the march SAT.
Honestly, I don’t see a pattern for those at all:( I definitely see a pattern for the math and writing sections, but for the critical reading, they seem to change it up a lot. However, for each story, it seems like there are themes that they want you to pick up on. They seem to want you to get some central message/theme/mood from each passage, so try to figure out what they want to see and what the questions collectively suggest. Make sure your answers coordinate with each other too. I hope this made sense! Haha 
@Conan77
That being said, the same types of questions repeat and they are looking for the same inferences in all of the passages, so, even though the passages/answers will change, just familiarize yourself with the aspects of each story they usually ask yourself so you can be examining those specifically while you read.
Here are some tips for CR:
@Conan77 For questions that ask about main idea, you basically have to look for the author’s thesis/opinion in the passage (not the topic). For the purpose, you have to look for the topic and how the author presents the topic. For instance, for the Saburo passage, the topic was Saburo’s relationship with his father. In the passage, the author essentially narrated, so the purpose would be to “describe a changing relationship”.
For inference and detail questions, you have to reason through the information in the passage, so there aren’t really any tricks; however, in general, the wording for inference question answer choices tends to mirror the wording of the details in the passage closely.
For tone questions, here are some patterns:
If the author is positive, then choose a choice like “appreciative” or “approving”. It’s really hard to prove that the author is “euphoric” or “rapturous”.
If the author is negative, then choose a choice like “critical” or “skeptical”. Don’t choose something like “bitter” or “deeply resentful”.
If the author is poking fun at the counterargument, choose a choice like “flippant”, not something like “cynical” or “mocking”.
If the author is neutral, choose an answer such as “objective”, not “philosophical” or “didactic”.
These are just general patterns, so if you can totally prove that the tone is extreme, then you may be right, but otherwise, choose moderate answers for questions that ask about the author’s tone and about what he/she might think about the other author (in double passages) or about certain topics.
Anyone know what time the full score reports are out?
They’re out for me.